up2date broke up2date RHEL4

up2date seems to be broken on one of my Nahant Update 4
servers.  It was
applying 8 updates yesterday and when it got to the
kernel-smp-devel
package the connection timed out.  Now when I "up2date
-u" I get package
conflict errors and there seems to be data missing from the
error
message (pasted below).

RHN claims that I need to apply security updates for php and
xorg-x11
(RHSA-2007:0076 & 0003) but up2date complains that I
already have them
when I try to "up2date -i" them by name.  An
"up2date --undo" produced
an AttributeError and I'll paste portions of
/var/log/up2date below
showing the packages that were updated including the error. 
I also
tried "up2date -p" and "rpm --rebuilddb"
which didn't seem to make any
difference.

Thanks,
  John

# up2date -u

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
php                                     4.3.9         
3.22.3
 i386
xorg-x11                                6.8.2         
1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs                6.8.2         
1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-devel                          6.8.2         
1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-libs                           6.8.2         
1.EL.13.37.5
 i386
xorg-x11-xfs                            6.8.2         
1.EL.13.37.5
 i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
The following packages were added to your selection to
satisfy dependencies:
Name                                    Version       
Release
------------------------------------------------------------
--
php-ldap                                4.3.9         
3.22.3
php-pear                                4.3.9         
3.22.3
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel          6.8.2         
1.EL.13.37.5

package xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5 is
already
installed
package php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3 is already installed
package php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.3 is already installed

#

----

[Wed Feb 21 06:58:31 2007] up2date availablePackageList from
network
[Wed Feb 21 06:58:35 2007] up2date solving dep for:
['kernel-ib',
'kernel-ib', '
kernel-ib']
[Wed Feb 21 07:01:32 2007] up2date installing packages:
['bind-libs-9.2.4-24.EL4
', 'bind-utils-9.2.4-24.EL4', 'dbus-0.22-12.EL.8',
'dbus-devel-0.22-12.EL.8', 'd
bus-glib-0.22-12.EL.8', 'dbus-python-0.22-12.EL.8',
'dbus-x11-0.22-12.EL.8', 'fe
tchmail-6.2.5-6.el4.5', 'firefox-1.5.0.9-0.1.el4',
'gnomemeeting-1.0.2-9', 'gnup
g-1.2.6-8', 'gtk2-2.4.13-22', 'kernel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL',
'kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.0
.8.EL', 'kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL',
'kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL', 'k
ernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL', 'libgsf-1.10.1-2',
'libibverbs-1.0.3-1', 'libm
thca-1.0.2-1', 'libsdp-0.9.0-1', 'php-4.3.9-3.22.3',
'php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.3', 'p
hp-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3', 'postgresql-libs-7.4.16-1.RHEL4.1',
'samba-3.0.10-1.4E.11
', 'samba-client-3.0.10-1.4E.11',
'samba-common-3.0.10-1.4E.11',
'seamonkey-nspr
-1.0.7-0.1.el4', 'seamonkey-nss-1.0.7-0.1.el4',
'tar-1.14-12.RHEL4',
'tzdata-200
6m-3.el4', 'xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.
5', 'xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1
.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-dev
el-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-libs
-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5', 'xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-1
.EL.13.37.5', 'xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5',
'xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-1.EL.13.3
7.5', 'xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5', 'kernel-ib-1.0-1']
[Wed Feb 21 09:39:35 2007] up2date Updating package profile
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:46 2007] up2date updating login info
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:46 2007] up2date logging into up2date
server
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:47 2007] up2date successfully retrieved
authentication
token f
rom up2date server
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:47 2007] up2date availablePackageList from
network
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:50 2007] up2date solving dep for: ['php',
'php',
'xorg-x11-dep
recated-libs', 'xorg-x11-devel']
[Wed Feb 21 10:48:54 2007] up2date RPM package conflict
error.
...

The rest of the error is from the first pasting above.

-- 
John Fulton, Linux Administrator, Lafayette College ITS
610-330-5650, Pardee Hall Room 11, Easton PA 18042-1775


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On some older systems (RH8 and RH9), I occasionally had to
delete the 
temporary files in /var/lib/rpm/ and rebuild the rpmdb
database:


  rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
  rpm --rebuilddb
  rpm -vv --rebuilddb  /* if you want lots of output */

It's been a while since I have had to do this, but it might
help (and it 
shouldn't hurt).

   Alfred Hovdestad





John Fulton wrote:
> up2date seems to be broken on one of my Nahant Update 4
servers.  It was
> applying 8 updates yesterday and when it got to the
kernel-smp-devel
> package the connection timed out.  Now when I
"up2date -u" I get package
> conflict errors and there seems to be data missing from
the error
> message (pasted below).
> 
> RHN claims that I need to apply security updates for
php and xorg-x11
> (RHSA-2007:0076 & 0003) but up2date complains that
I already have them
> when I try to "up2date -i" them by name.  An
"up2date --undo" produced
> an AttributeError and I'll paste portions of
/var/log/up2date below
> showing the packages that were updated including the
error.  I also
> tried "up2date -p" and "rpm
--rebuilddb" which didn't seem to make any
> difference.
> 
> Thanks,
>   John
> 

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Alfred,

Thanks for your advice.  I was able to fix the system.

First I tried:

rpm --rebuilddb
rm -rf /var/spool/up2date/*
up2date-nox -pvvv --hardware
up2date-nox -lvvv
up2date-nox -uvvv

But had the same issue.  RedHat support suggested that I
remove the
packages that up2date was complaining about with:

rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers
php-pear-4.3.9-3.22.3
rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.22.3
rpm -e --justdb --nodeps --noscripts --notriggers
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.13.37.5

I was able to then have a normal 'up2date -u' and it seems
to be
fixed.

  John

Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
> On some older systems (RH8 and RH9), I occasionally had
to delete the
> temporary files in /var/lib/rpm/ and rebuild the rpmdb
database:
>
>
>  rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
>  rpm --rebuilddb
>  rpm -vv --rebuilddb  /* if you want lots of output */
>
> It's been a while since I have had to do this, but it
might help (and it
> shouldn't hurt).
>
>   Alfred Hovdestad
>
>
>
>
>
> John Fulton wrote:
>> up2date seems to be broken on one of my Nahant
Update 4 servers.  It was
>> applying 8 updates yesterday and when it got to the
kernel-smp-devel
>> package the connection timed out.  Now when I
"up2date -u" I get package
>> conflict errors and there seems to be data missing
from the error
>> message (pasted below).
>>
>> RHN claims that I need to apply security updates
for php and xorg-x11
>> (RHSA-2007:0076 & 0003) but up2date complains
that I already have them
>> when I try to "up2date -i" them by name. 
An "up2date --undo" produced
>> an AttributeError and I'll paste portions of
/var/log/up2date below
>> showing the packages that were updated including
the error.  I also
>> tried "up2date -p" and "rpm
--rebuilddb" which didn't seem to make any
>> difference.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   John
>>
>
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Hello,

I've run into some trouble lately when installing software
on RHES ES 4
EM64 .  Newly installed executables will not execute.  Even
when including
the entire path, I still get the error message "Cannot
execute binary
file".  Permissions are 755, file is owned by root and
belongs to the root
group.  I tried starting it from a non privileged user and
still the same.
 SELinux has been disabled in an effort to try and debug
this.  The
executables I am talking about are supposed to be compiled
for 64 bit
Linux.

This has happened to two different executable files so far,
and it seems
to me that I remember there being some security attribute
that will not
allow executable files to run just anywhere or something
like that.

Would anybody have any information on this?

Thanks in Advance
Pete



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